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DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:58 am Post subject: Brodick, Isle of Arran

Brodick War Memorial
Location: Beside A841, Shore Road, Brodick
OS Ref: NJ 995 545

UKNIWM Ref No. 9785

I was unable to locate the Brodick War Memorial, Isle of Arran
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DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

Name: McINTYRE
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Service No: S/4900
Additional information: Son of William and Catherine McIntyre, of 8, Douglas Row, Brodick, Isle of Arran.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. G. 11.
Cemetery: PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

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DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:02 am Post subject:

Name: BARBOUR, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 17th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Service No: 16282
Additional information: Son of James and Mary Barbour, of 7, Douglas Row, Brodick, Isle of Arran.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. AA. 36.
Cemetery: DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks to the WW2 Museums website and Google Maps Street View we can now see what Brodick War Memorial looks like and where it is located.

I can see why it was easy to miss, the shrubbery round it should get a bit of a prune.

The WW2 musuems site is here:

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/11044/War

Gogle Maps Street View location is here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?

DerekR · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject:

Adam,
Is there anyway of getting an O/S grid reference off Google Maps Street View for this memorial?
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Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:33 pm Post subject:

Derek

If you follow the link to Google maps you can zoom out to get a location in the town.

By my reckoning it must be around NS 013 360 on the OS map.

Thanks

Adam

spoons · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject:

spoons · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject:

drat - beat me to it, my fault for going for the complex solution that doesn't need you to compare maps by eye.

\Paul

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject:

Paul

That made my day. That's a great way of getting an exact OS Ref.

Cheers

Adam

john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife

Easy to miss due to surrounding foliage. On main road going out of Brodick towards Brodick Castle. Opposite playing fields, Ormidale Park.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:29 am Post subject:

CPL. GEORGE RESIDE - WW1
The 4th A&SH was a "Reserve Battalion"

SNWM:
Surname RAESIDE
Firstname George
Service Number S/41108
Date Death 23/04/1917
Decoration
Place of birth Brodick Bute.
Other 7th Bn.
SNWM roll THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS
Rank L/Cpl
Theatre of death F.& F.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Medal card of Raeside, George.
Corps Regiment No Rank
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders S-11749 Acting Corporal
Gordon Highlanders S-41108 Acting Corporal

CWGC
RAESIDE, G
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:S/41108
Date of Death:23/04/1917
Regiment/Service:Gordon Highlanders
1st/7th Bn.
Grave ReferenceIII. C. 16.
CemeteryBROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Additional Information:
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Ken

A Beattie

The Glasgow Herald, Thursday, 20th December, 1917.
"Deaths on Service.
WATSON.- Killed in action about 6th November, William Wallace Watson, Sergeant (sic) Canadians, son of John Watson, Vancouver, late of Glencloy, Brodick, Arran."

Death notice says Sgt.; CWGC says Cpl.

CWGC - WATSON, W.W.
Rank: Corporal.
Service No: 429772.
Date of Death: 10/11/1917. Age: 31.
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry 7th Bn. (British Columbia Regt.)
Panel Reference: Panel 18 - 28 - 30. (Bay 18.)
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of John and Grace Watson, of 74, 12th Avenue West, Vancouver.
Native of Brodick, Scotland.

1901 Census Butes., Brodick, Kilbride, Glencloy Farmhouse, recorded (transcription):- William Watson (14), Scholar, born Brodick; John Watson (61), Farmer, born Lanarks., Crawfordjohn; Grace Watson (53), wife, born Butes., Whiting Bay; siblings.

Also remembered on the Brodick panel at the War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash. http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic3611-0-asc-15.html
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Andrew.

A Beattie

CWGC - CURRIE, John Shaw
Rank:Quartermaster Serjeant.
Service No: 4851.
Date of Death: 05/06/1919. Age: 39. (Died from disease contracted from horses.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Veterinary Corps formerly (Sh. Smith 9732) 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
Grave Reference: Old ground. 610 Near South-West corner.
Cemetery: KILBRIDE OLD CHURCHYARD, ISLE OF ARRAN
Additional Information:
Son of Archibald and Mary Shaw Currie, of Brodick, Arran. Served in the South African Campaign with Imperial Yeomanry. Enlisted in May, 1915.

Headstone schedules/ Grave registrations record Mr. Peter Currie, painter, "Kirklea", Brodick, Isle of Arran (brother); Mrs. John Calder, Free Church Manse, Campbeltown, Argyllshire (sister).
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Andrew.

A Beattie

Wrong unit on memorial.

SNWM - WW1
Surname DEWAR
Forename Angus
Rank Pte
Service number 23442
Decoration
Place of birth Brodick Arran
Date of death 23 April 1917
Theatre of death F&F
Cause of death Killed in action
SNWM roll THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS
Unit name Unknown Unit attached to THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS
Other detail latterly S/40729 8th Bn. The Seaforth Highlanders.

SDGW - Born Brodick; enlisted Fauldhouse, West Lothian.
Medal index ticket:- http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2610937

Service 1) Soldier Number: 23442, Rank: Private, Corps: Cameron Highlanders.
Service 2) Soldier Number: S/40729, Rank: Private, Corps: Seaforth Highlanders.

CWGC - DEWAR, Angus
Rank: Private.
Service No: S/40729.
Date of Death: 23/04/1917. Age: 37.
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. B. 15.
Cemetery: GUEMAPPE BRITISH CEMETERY, WANCOURT
Additional Information:

Headstone schedules record Miss G. Henderson, Graculia, Fauldhouse, West Lothian.

1881 Census Buteshire, Brodick, Kilbride, Goatfell Cottage, recorded (transcription):- Angus H. Dewar (1), born Kilbride; John Dewar (34), Head Gamekeeper employing 5 under keepers, born Ayrs., St. Quivox (1891 census says he is born Coylton); Jessie Dewar (30), Wife, born Argylls., Lochgilphead; siblings, all born Kilbride.

Also remembered (as are all WW1 names on this memorial) on the Brodick panel at the War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash (see link above).
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Andrew.

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